DreamEternal

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Why is your kind the indirect cause of most transrealmatic anomalies in our realm? By which name do you call our realm? Across the realms, how common is knowledge of other realms? What about your realm, is knowledge of other realms common there? If so, is that why it is called 'The Traveler's Haven'?

Ah, linguistical limitations. The bane of every polite gentleman, precise analyst or even writers who dare to walk outside the common ground. In portuguese, almost every noun and adjective and all third person pronouns are gendered. Which sucks if you are trying to write a character who is as far as everyone is concerned genderless, and whom I can't just give a gender to identify which for the sake of making writing easier. Well, I can, but that is the last resort, so I don't simply leave that character without PoV.

The Listeners who became Stormform were the ones that purposefully went out during a Highstorm with a traped stormspren and the right mindset.If you are wondering why Rlain didn't go Stormform during the Everstorm, it is said parshmen, AKA, slaveform/formless Listeners will be turned into voidbringers. I'd say that since he has a spren, his spiritweb is complete and the spren-shaped hole in it closed, so he would have to try to change forms during the Everstorm or be somehow forced into slaveform to become a voidbringer against his will.

I am like that as well, it is just that I just give up after stumbling on a worldbuilding hole and go back to the annotations.

Native speaker of portuguese, I've been taught how to speak english since an young age and can do so fluently enough to make myself understood, although my acent is still very unsubtle, and I often pause to find the right words. I believe ability to write in english does not need to be described, yes? Or my ability to read in english, since the only book Brandon wrote I read in my own language was Mistborn: The Final Empire.

Awesome to know other over-ambitious worldbuilder is making better progress than me. My worldbuilding notes are nowhere as extense as I'd like, since I tend to relly too much on my superhuman memory, but I am trying to fix this so I can finaly write my 3+ Eras of the Arginian Saga, going from a divinely assisted planetary exodus and a cultural clash between four sapient species in a dying world to conspiracies involving transhuman immortals and two Catacendre-like events. I am quite sure I am going overboard, since I am not that good at worldbuilding at first place, being better at making characters. But I am trying. Of course, I have gone nowhere as far as you, but I feel I am progressing faster each month that passes.

@Pathfinder: while I still believe slaves should be more expensive than the books portray them as being, I had forgotten about the use of cavalry in the War of Reckoning. Taking into account the fact that a knight and horse are much more expensive to replace than infantrymen, I can now understand better the logic behind Sadeas' tatics.

The machine give Kaymyth a Divine Breath. *Inserts Stormblessed Peasant's Breath*

Shardwraiths of Helmore

Heliodor shouldn't make green light, if the KR chart is indicative of the ideal color of the polestones.

Impratical, not impossible.

No. You would lose a couple of soldiers once in a while, but the reason bridgemen die so often is because they are unshielded, untrained and unarmored arrow bait. The losses among trained soldiers would be extremely small compared to the losses the bridgemen face, and even if the crews only get the cheapest slaves of the bunch slaves still shouldn't be so cheap as to justify killing twenty of them for every soldier that is saved from the arrows but may still die to the parshendi blades.

They are funnier when they are weirder. Brandon Sanderson is like a proceduraly generated maze.

Easy! If the eye spike is the link between them, spook could just tear it out and tap a goldmind if they needed to part ways.

I don't craft my characters, but I don't discover them either. The first is too rigid, the second too immediate, as if the character appeared complete. No, I don't build my characters piece by piece, and I don't simply find them fully formed by my subcouncious mind and ready. The process that creates them is slow and constant, councious yet spontaneous. I don't create characters, I grow them. Cultivate, even. Most of my best made characters start as pieces of myself, little seeds that can grow into something very different from the original, but of the same substance. If I feel I need characters of too diffeent nature for the first method to work, I try to construct a logical chassis to then let them grow around. What do they think is right or wrong? Why? How do they feel used to acting? How would they feel truly confortabke acting? Do they control every move they make, or go where the wind blows? After I have the seed and chassis, I feed it. I feed it with music, generaly, or attach some parts of other people and characters, to be assimilated into the emerging being. When I feel they are ready to move on their own, I write and let them grow further, sometimes with surprising results.

One of the main characters from a history I am planning and outlining turned out to be transgender. The other is basically genderless, when it comes to identity and interaction with other characters, and is forcing me to struggle to find a way to portray it while writing from a third person viewpoint in a language without gender-neutral pronouns and adjectives. And a very important secondary character is having trouble taking shape because I just can't get in the right mindset to write him. Maybe I just need the right hat to get into the mindset, but them I'd have to figure out what kind of hat is associated with his organization, which acts like a federal police of sorts. Oh, and I need to figure the exact tech level for this setting. They don't have widespread use of eletricity and lack fossile fuels, but the local magic systems make them have surprisingly advanced knowledge of medicine, biology, and to a lesser degree physics. I need to find out how said knowledge can be put to use without anything derived from petroleum or needing eletricity to be made, especialy in the areas of surgery and forensics.

Gardeners are as cultivation-y as it gets.

Needs more chasmfiend. And dragon slaying too.

As far as I know, no. It was know way before the shift in the flashback order.

Happens with me too. For some reason only works on my parents...

Actualy, before Brandon changed the flashback order, book five was to be titled Highprince of War and book three either Skybreaker or Stones Unhallowed.

No. She says he may not know or be too weak, but it is implied she is unsure and curious of what is happening.I currently suspect that due to the opposing nature of their powers, Ruin would have a significant part, if not all of his power splintered if he just made a full direct attack, because Preservation's power would push back against him with all its strenght. However, by taking it slow he can kill Preservation withoit being damaged by the pushback.

While I agree it is most likely cheaper, because there is no point otherwise, my point is that it is unrealistic for it to be cheaper. But then, with soulcasters providing food there is less need for farmers, making potential slaves more numerous. Still, I don't think it is realistic to run bridges Sadeas style. You are welcome. I've pondered about this for a while, but only after reading your estimations I realized how far Sadeas took it.

Neither.